The Irish Times and Met Éireann Showcasing Ireland’s Changing Climate

Communicating the changing climate in Ireland to the public is essential for climate action. The Irish Times have created a webpage to showcase how Ireland's climate has changed, and what the future may hold for us.

This work was produced in collaboration with the Climate Services division in Met Éireann. It uses Met Éireann's TRANSLATE project, a set of standardised climate projections for Ireland to look into the future. It also incorporates the new and updated 30 Year Climate Averages from Met Éireann to show how Ireland's climate has already changed.

The webpage is now live and can be accessed by visiting this link:

Floods, storms and changing coastlines: how a warmer world is impacting Ireland

The page uses interactive tools to engage readers and allows them to explore and digest climate information in a way that may not have been available before.

The TRANSLATE project was launched in 2023 and is a recent winner of a RÉALTA Award, which focuses on excellence and innovation in the 'Climate Action and Sustainable Government'.

The project set out to develop a standard set of climate projections for Ireland up to the end of the century. The projections aim to support decisions affected by climate in Ireland. It is already being used across Ireland, in both public and private sectors, to support climate policy, climate planning, climate decision making and climate action, and was one of the feature topics presented in February at the recent National Framework for Climate Services (NFCS) Workshop.

The project brings together the breath of Ireland's climate change information expertise, through its project team and steering committee, made up of scientists and leading experts. The project team, supported by Met Éireann climatologists, is made up of researchers from the University of Galway, Irish Centre for High End Computing (ICHEC), University of Cork and SFI Research Centre for Energy, Climate and Marine (MaREI).